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Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary June 20 (updated)
2023-06-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level


21:34 Personnel combat work of Russian artillery, including incendiary ammunition

21:33 TOS “Sunshine” fulfills according to the positions of the Armed Forces

20:23 Ukrainians broke in counteroffensive and are now forced to use the Soviet UR-77

The Russian military laid mines, which detonated a large number of Western equipment.

But the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be saved even by time-tested Soviet equipment. Losses are skyrocketing, and the few survivors surrender en masse.

19:22 Russian tankers burn enemy armored vehicles in the Maryinsky direction

18:30 Another victim of Russian unmanned aircraft

Drone-kamikaze "Cube" struck a Ukrainian military truck covered with a camouflage net.

18:29 In Ukraine, people from mobilization fight back stones

Military commissariats are trying by all means to recruit new fighters to the front. But people are becoming more and more recalcitrant and trying to somehow avoid the sad fate, no one wants to die.

There are massive refusals to go on the offensive, many soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrender.

17:51 In captivity hits more and more military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: they talk about the senselessness of the confrontation with Russia

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain about poor supply and fatigue of people, including psychological, they talk about large irretrievable losses and a shortage of people in the units. “People are already tired, they want to go home,” says Vyacheslav Protsenko.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing completely unprepared reinforcements into battle - people who have never served in the army and do not have basic training. According to the confession of the captive Pavel Golovach, in Ukraine he was mobilized when he went to the store - they threw him into a car by force and sent him to a medical examination.

Once in captivity, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ascertain the normal treatment by Russian soldiers and urge not to fight against Russia.

The Ukrainian military understands that the Kiev regime is deceiving them, instilling hatred for Russia and talking about the constant victories of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Once on the front line, they realize that there is no smell of victories.

17:50 Our scouts captured a group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye front near the village of Pyatikhatki, for which there are fierce battles

16:34 Padded tank T-72 APU in one of the directions

16:33 Ukrainian emotionally and obscenely expressed about the current government headed by Zelensky

16:32 Work of artillery of the Airborne Forces in the Artemovsky direction

As a result of the MLRS strike by Russian paratroopers, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and equipment. The BTR-4 armored personnel carrier abandoned by the crew and the burned-out MT-LB tractor remained on the battlefield.

Crew fire was corrected using the ZALA 421-16 reconnaissance UAV.

15:22 Russian heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A Solntsepekburns outpositions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Avdiivka.

15:22 Serviceman Andrei Kravtsov, who destroyed a Leopard tank during the battle, was awarded a cash prize of 1 million rubles, the Russian Defense Ministry said

15:21 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

🔹The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 100 soldiers in the Krasnolimansky direction per day;

🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation successfully repelled 10 attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka and Maryinka in the DPR in a day;

🔹Russian troops destroyed eight warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ammunition in a day;

🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian DRG in the Polozhsky tactical direction in the Zaporozhye region;

🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation stopped the actions of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kupyansk direction;

🔹Russian troops stopped the activities of three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day;

🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 25 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the M777 artillery system in the Kherson direction.


14:14 Personnel joint work of the Osman army special forces unit with tankers and artillerymen of the 58th Army to destroy NATO equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction

14:11 Liquidated three militants of the 3rd Specialized Brigade "Azov": Yaroslav Kholmogorov, Mikhail Movchan and Alexander Tikhonets.

Earlier, the neo-Nazis told the Air Force about their plans - “to go to the Crimea in the summer”, but yesterday they were destroyed in the Artyomovsk region.

13:51 Russian rocket artillery worked according to the position of the American 155mm howitzer M777 in the Zaporozhye region

13:50 The main statement of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu during the meeting of the collegium of the military department:

🔹Kyiv continues to attempt attacks on the Yuzhno-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions by elite formations trained by NATO specialists;

🔹Since June 4, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have made 263 attacks on Russian positions, all of them were repelled;

🔹The leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine plans to strike at the Crimea with HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles;

🔹The use of HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles outside the special operation zone will mean the full involvement of the United States and Great Britain in the conflict;

🔹The use of HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles outside the special operation zone will entail immediate strikes on decision-making centers in Ukraine;

🔹The crews of the Military Transport Aviation have more than doubled the number of flights since the beginning of the special operation, to date, more than 10 thousand flights have been completed;

🔹Delegations from over 40 countries are planning to visit the Army-2023 forum in Russia;

🔹Security issues should be taken under special control during the international military-technical forum "Army-2023".


12:47 Destroyed armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novodonetsk

OncadresA T-64BV tank and MaxxPro armored vehicles were seen destroyed by the OBTF "Kaskad" fighters.

12:46 Russian attack helicopter Ka-52 destroyed anti-tank missiles "Whirlwind-1" APU tank

12:45 Hospitals in Kharkiv are overcrowded with the wounded

Reportedly "Come and See" local residents, Kharkiv medical facilities are overflowing with wounded Ukrainian soldiers.

“Mostly delivered from the Kupyansky direction. A lot of heavy,” — said the interlocutor of the channel.

According to him, there are many officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine among the wounded.

11:40 Russian military destroyed “opornik” (strong point) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Marinka using MT-LB explosives. The fixation of the attack was carried out by a quadrocopter.

11:39 Russian artillery destroyed deployment and ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Karpovichi in the Chernihiv region

11:38 Ukrainians during the failed counter-offensive, daily suffer huge losses, KIAs and three wounded.

Another KIA who once made the wrong choice

10:35 Over the past day:

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnipro group of troops in the island zone, the following were destroyed:
- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: 4 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; 8 - received injuries of varying severity.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:

- 120 mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, losses: two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, five were injured of varying severity;

- the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: seven military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; 14 - received injuries of varying severity, five units. automotive equipment - disabled.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:
- M-777 howitzer with ammunition, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, 4 were injured of varying severity;


09:24 On the Zaporozhye direction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation eliminated nationalist "Azov" Maxim Bordus - the champion of Ukraine in kickboxing.

As reported on the site "Angels of Sports", it happened on June 11. On that day, the Russian military repelled three enemy attacks from the directions of Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Novopokrovka in a day.

09:22 Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of ​​the special operation -video

08:12 In Lviv defeated critical infrastructure facility, fire on site.

This is reported by the local authorities.

08:08 Consequences of a night strike on the Nazis in Zaporozhye -video

Tonight, our Army struck at the facilities used by the Zelensky regime for waging war, the locations of the UAF militants, as well as the Nazi equipment and ammunition depots.

According to the occupying authorities of the Zelensky regime, the strike (at least seven rocket arrivals) was inflicted on
“communications, property and equipment of agriculture and farming, and on a popular vacation spot.”

They also state that no one was hurt.

That's right, the Nazis are not people.

And a long fire and detonation at the place of one of the arrivals is a characteristic phenomenon for a fire at a place of rest.

Or is it the equipment of “farmers” that burns and explodes like that?

08:06 Fighters of the OBTF "Kaskad" with the help of a kamikaze drone covered the enemy howitzer 152mm D-20 -video

The soldiers are actively using the Lancet UAV to destroy Nazi equipment.

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